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Hello, everyone.

Today is the 3rd & Sunday, so it's Suika Day, Doremy Day and Merlin Day.

It's also Pony Express Day & National Don't Go to Work Unless It's Fun Day.

Have a happy.

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2022-04-04

"Three coffins, in which lay three beautiful maidens, glided from the thickest part of the forest across the lake. The fire-flies flew lightly over them, like little floating torches." (Andersen "Snow Queen")

🎨 Maximilian Pirner (1888)

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2022-04-02

Well, come again to-morrow; fare thee well. (Olivia)

Twelfth Night
Shakespeare

🎨Heath Robinson

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2022-04-01

'We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.'
-Ursula K. Le Guin

🎨Arthur Rackham

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2022-03-31

Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades
In gentleness of heart; with gentle hand
Touch—for there is a spirit in the woods.

— William Wordsworth

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2022-03-23

There are often more toads around in Spring but if you're in Japan you should beware of ogama, giant toad created when toads reach 1000 years old. They live deep in the forests & the larger they grow, the more dangerous they become.

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2022-03-19


Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania, an area with curved trees, has gained paranormal notoriety around the world and is known as the "Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania“. Wandering people additionally suffer under rashes, nausea and anxiety. Even an UFO was spotted.

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2022-03-17

The boy gave his parents much anxiety;he became nervous and strange in his manner,refusing to leave the cottage by himself,and constantly alarming the household by waking in the night with cries of "The man in the wood! Father!"
Arthur Machen,The Great God Pan

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2022-03-11

Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until just five minutes ago that such stories were, you know, only stories.

—Molly Ringle

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2022-03-04

Leshy is another important creature of Ukrainian folklore.

In some tales, hunters offer their souls to this forest spirit, and in return, he lures animals into their hands.

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2022-03-01

“It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night” (Shakespeare)

🎨 Johannes Figlhuber's concept art for "Ori and the Blind Forest" (2017)

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2022-02-28

"As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. . . My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors." ― R.A. Salvatore, Exile
Art by Kristina Carroll

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2022-02-26

Fenrir (the Wolf) is the oldest of three terrible children of Loki. Fenrir is huge, strong, terrifying, and his upper jaw touches heaven when yawning. Only war god Tyr is brave enough to feed the wolf. More: https://t.co/OJktfv3bUj


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2022-02-24

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

—Maurice Sendak

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2022-02-23

Be careful and watch your steps when you enter the realms of Jötunheimr, the home of the fearful Norse giants. You might think twice before undertaking a journey to these dark forests and mountain peaks. More: https://t.co/Mq6JNBYHLC

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2022-02-23

"So he went into the forest with the intention of hanging himself from a tree." (Brothers Grimm)

Broke blacksmith met Old Nick thusly in the woods who helped him out of his misery and gets cheated and beaten for his pains. Poor Devil.

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2022-02-19

"I was shown a small square pillar of white stone, which had been recently discovered in the wood" (Arthur Machen)

... dedicated to Nodens, "the god of the Great Deep or Abyss" in Roman times and witness to some very disturbing rituals.

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2022-02-16